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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Mark Sweney

The ‘death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

Bournvita’s D For Dreams campaign, featuring Rahul Dravid
Bournvita’s D For Dreams campaign, featuring Rahul Dravid, was developed by the WPP companies Ogilvy and Wavemaker India. Photograph: WPP

From using motion capture tech to allow the Indian cricketing star Rahul Dravid to give personalised coaching tips for children to an algorithm trained on Shakespeare’s handwriting powering a robotic arm to rewrite Romeo and Juliet, artificial intelligence is rapidly revolutionising the global advertising industry.

Those AI-created adverts, for the Cadbury’s drink brand Bournvita and the pen maker Bic, were produced by agency group WPP, which is spending £300m annually on data, tech and machine learning to remain competitive.

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